Sara Tancredi is the doctor at Fox River State Penitentiary and Michael Scofield's love interest.Getting Sara on his side is a key part of Michael's plan to escape. He fakes type 1 diabetes as an excuse to go to the infirmary regularly to see her and to conduct recon.Sara tries to resist her attraction to him but is intrigued by him when she learns about his impressive academic background and connection to condemned Lincoln Burrows. Sara follows her conscience and is a strong independent person.Michael saves her life at one point, earning her trust.He betrays this trust several times in the course of trying to escape, but he genuinely cares about her and wants to make things right.Background: She is the only child of Frank Tancredi, the governor of Illinois, from whom she is estranged. Her mother is deceased. She attended Northwestern University. She chose to work at Fox River State Penitentiary for humanitarian reasons. She is a recovering morphine addict.